Swedish Court Rules Medical Personnel Have No Right to Opt out of Abortions [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 15 Nov 2015 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

While acknowledging that the law requiring medical practitioners to conduct abortions may violate the moral objections of some individuals, a Swedish court ruled that "a citizen's legal obligation to obey the law takes precedence over a private right of conscience."

The case arose when nurse Ellinor Grimmark sought to be excused from assisting in abortion procedures. "I did not seek to impose my will upon the patients seeking these procedures," Grimmark said. "I only sought to avoid complicity in this crime against the human rights of the little children."

Judge Lief Niflheim was not entirely unsympathetic to Grimmark's position, but averred that "membership in civil society carries the obligation to submit to its laws, heinous as they may appear from one's personal perspective. An appeal to a so-called higher morality has no legal weight if the country's law makers have decided otherwise. Order would devolve into chaos if every individual's pangs of conscience had to be taken into consideration. Until such a time as the envisioned 'higher morality' has a mechanism to compel compliance each member of society is expected to obey the laws decreed by their government."

Grimmark now cannot work as a nurse in Sweden and has had to leave the country and find employment in Norway.

In America, Planned Parenthood president and CEO Cecile Richards defended the practice of harvesting baby parts from aborted children as "fiscally sound. Look, mothers have the legal right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Once the termination has been effected the baby is already dead. Refusing to sell the parts won't bring it back to life. All that blocking us from selling the parts does is deny us critical financial resources that could be used to continue and expand our services to women."

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